(n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined four nucleotide sequences of the hominoid immunoglobulin alpha (C alpha) genes (chimpanzee C alpha 2, gorilla C alpha 2, and gibbon C alpha 1 and C alpha 2 genes), which made possible the examination of gene conversions in all hominoid C alpha genes.
(2) The sequence of the murine protein differs from that of the human protein in 10% of residues, and it may be presumed that some of these differences are responsible for the inability of gibbon ape leukemia virus to infect mouse fibroblasts.
(3) The stratigraphical position of the os Daubentonii has been established comparing the situation in the Gibbon with that of the human ulno-carpal region.
(4) By including the gamma 1- and gamma 2-globin gene sequences from the common gibbon, Hylobates lar, the present work expands the gamma-globin data set to represent all major groups of hominoid primates.
(5) Could we just be clear that you now don’t believe Lord Fink’s tax affairs are dodgy?” “Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News.
(6) Variation in a 252-nucleotide segment of the cytochrome b gene from 26 gibbons is described.
(7) Gibbons that acquired infectious gibbon ape leukemia virus, either naturally by exposure to a virus-shedding ape or experimentally by deliberate virus inoculation, had the same levels of serum lytic activity as did unexposed gibbons that had no detectable antibodies to gibbon ape leukemia virus.
(8) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(9) Stimulation of feline PBL with Con A followed by culturing in 50 U of gibbon monkey IL-2 human rIL-2 induced long term lymphocyte cultures.
(10) The electrophoretic mobilities of human, gorilla and gibbon CBG were similar (RF 0.50-0.51), but differed from Old World monkey CBG (RF 0.44-0.49) and chimpanzee CBG (RF 0.47).
(11) All positive sera from gibbon apes reacted as HSV-1 positive.
(12) The gibbon leukaemia cell line MLA 144 produces IL-2 constitutively, and has been used as a source of IL-2 for the in vitro growth of T cells from a range of species.
(13) Alan Gibbons, a library campaigner and children’s author, said the UK library service was suffering because of a lack of “strategic leadership”.
(14) We have demonstrated that the gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) enhancer AP-1 element and the simian virus 40 AP-1 enhancer element bind different factors in HeLa nuclear extracts.
(15) These receptors include CD4 for human immunodeficiency virus, Rec-1 for murine ecotropic virus, and GLVR1 for gibbon ape leukemia virus.
(16) Whereas mouse gs antigen was clearly detectable in tissue culture cells of several mouse strains, the respective gs antigens of rat, cat, Chinese hamster, woolly monkey, and gibbon ape were not detectable in cells of those species, using assays of comparable sensitivity.
(17) In addition, lymphocytes from infected gibbon apes displayed a specific, MHC-restricted, cytotoxic activity against autologous cells expressing HIV-1 envelope or gag proteins.
(18) Although IL-2 binding was reported to be restricted to the Tac peptide, we have identified an IL-2 binding peptide that does not react with anti-human IL-2 receptor monoclonal antibodies, including anti-Tac on MLA 144, a gibbon ape T-cell line.
(19) Two gibbons inoculated with sporozoites of P. falciparum from Anopheles balabacensis fed on humans with falciparum malaria developed parasitemia 48 and 46 days after infection.
(20) However nsINH does not affect the appearance of IL-2 responsive cells as the addition of gibbon IL-2 to the culture fully reverses the suppressive effect of nsINH on blast transformation.
Siamang
Definition:
(n.) A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long-term observations are presented on the behaviour of the siamang ape, Symphalangus syndactylus, in the lowland forest of central Malaya.
(2) Thus, among known Miocene ape species it has the greatest demonstrated potential to be near the line of ancestry of the modern gibbon and siamang.
(3) Auditory brainstem (ABR) and middle latency responses (MLR) were obtained from each ear in 8 crab-eating macaques, 4 white-handed gibbons, 4 siamangs and 2 orangutans.
(4) A siamang (gibbon) and two drills (baboons) with the classic radiographic features of ankylosing spondylitis, namely a bamboo spine and sacroiliac joint fusion, are reported.
(5) Expression of human GPA antigenic determinants was consistent with the phylogeny of the hominoid primates; common and dwarf chimpanzee expressed most of the determinants tested, gorilla and orangutan an intermediate number, and gibbon and siamang the least.
(6) Genome size was measured as the amount of Feulgen-stained DNA in six species of the family Hylobatidae and in a hybrid of the gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) and siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus).
(7) A detailed study of a small sample of siamang and lar gibbons shows that they select figs in the morning, young leaves in the afternoon and figs again for the last feed of the day.
(8) Wild, adult siamang were observed for over 800 h in lowland dipterocarp forest in the Krau Game Reserve, Pahang, West Malaysia.
(9) In feeding, siamang use suspensory postures among small supports and seated postures on large supports.
(10) Banding patterns were observed in colobus' for D2S44, D1S7, and D4S139; owl monkeys for D2S44; gorillas for D2S44 and D4S139; gibbons for D2S44 and D4S139; siamangs for D2S44, talapoins for DiS7; cranes for D1S7; and otters for D1S7.
(11) Comparison of siamang locomotion and posture with that of other apes suggest that quadramanous climbing during feeding is the basic hominoid locomotor adaptation.
(12) Hybridization in situ was used to identify rDNA in chromosomes of the pygmy chimpanzee, mountain gorilla, and siamang gibbon.
(13) The ease of isolation and axenization of Giardia was surprising; five axenic isolates of Giardia, belonging to the G. duodenalis morphological group, were established from primates (slow loris, lesser slow loris and siamang) and from rodents (Gambian giant pouched rat and cuis).
(14) Laccopithecus robustus is a siamang-sized fossil ape from the Miocene site of Lufeng, China.
(15) The derived phylogenetic tree indicated a branching sequence, from oldest to most recent, of cercopithecoids (Macaca fascicularis), gibbon-siamang, orangutan, gorilla, and human-chimpanzee.
(16) The single pair in the siamang bears no resemblance to the nucleolar chromosome of the closely related lar gibbon.
(17) Laminated iron concretions were noted in the liver of an aged siamang (Hylobates syndactylus) that had granulomatous enteritis and hepatitis due to Mycobacterium avium intracellulare infection.
(18) Siamang use four patterns of locomotion: brachiation, climbing, bipedalism and leaping.
(19) The pattern of locomotion used by the siamang varies with the size of arboreal supports and with major behavioral activity.
(20) Mitochondrial DNA sequences encoding the cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene have been determined for five primate species, siamang (Hylobates syndactylus), lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus), crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), and green monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops), and compared with published sequences of other primate and nonprimate species.